Phonograph-record cabinet



0. LORENZ.

PHONOGRAPH RECORD CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1921.

1,417,188. I Patented 23, 1922 ATTORNEY PHONOGRAPH-BECORD CABINET.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1922.

Application filed March 21, 1921. Serial No. 453,939.

T 0 all to 710m it may concern Be it known that I, OswALn LORENZ, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Phonograph-Record Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to phonograph record cabinets such as are adapted to hold disk I records.

The invention has for a general object to provide an improved form of phonograph record cabinet, characterized by facility of selection and withdrawal of desired individual records, and further to provide a phonograph record cabinet in which a maximum compactness for a given number of records is combined with ease of selection and withdrawal of individual records.

More specifically speaking the invention may be said to have for an object to provide a cabinet having a series of closely spaced movable shelves each adapted to support a record, and having novel means by which any shelf of the series may be quickly selected, and readily grasped for withdrawal of the record thereon.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

I igure 1 of the drawings is a front view of a phonograph record cabinet comprising several units constructed according to the invention,

Figure 2 is a side view thereof.

Figure 3 is a front view on an enlarged scale of one of the units showing the cover or door thrown open.

Figure 4 is a plan View thereof with the door closed. 1

Figure 5 is a fragmentary transverse sec tion on a line passing through the center of one of the units from front to rear.

Figure 6 shows a series of the shelves in plan view to indicate the relative arrangement of the notches or recesses in the front edges thereof.

In the present embodiment of the invention I have shown a series of box-like containers arranged as drawers in a suitable casing. As here shown each of these units the lower to the upper shelves with the main comprises a bottom 1 and sides 2, being open at the front and top, with the back closed by a suitable member or panel 3. To brace the sides 2 at the front of the container, a rigid strap 2 may connect the upper front corners thereof, the latter being preferably recessed to receive the endsof the strap.

Formed in the inner faces of the side walls 2 are vertically spaced grooves 6 extending from front to rear thereof and having their front ends open, the spacing of these grooves being just sufliciently greater than the records to be carried in the cabinet, to allow of easy insertion and removal of the latter.

These grooves G serve to receive the side edges of a series of shelves 7 upon which the records, indicated at 8, are placed, each shelf carrying a single record. The shelves 1" are arranged to have a free slidingfit in the grooves 6, and are thin is consistent with the required strength, the maximum compactness possible with individually separated records being thus obtained.

In order to facilitate the selection and drawing out of individual shelves for access to the records carried thereon, I provide the front edges of the shelves with a novel system of notching or'recessing.

In this arrangement the notches or recesses increase progressively in length from lengths thereof in vertical registry with one another, so that a portion of each shelf, upon which a proper indicating or identifying mark may be pla :ed, is visible fron'l the top. The notches or recesses in alternate shelves also have a staggered relation at their ends whereby the grasping of each individual shelf is facilitated.

In carrying out this general arrangement the bottom shelf 11 has no notch formed therein, the series of notches starting with the second shelf 12 in which is formed a comparatively short notch b, the portion of the shelf 11 which registers with this notch having the numeral 1 marked thereon. A thumb notch a is also out in the bottom 1 of the container in registry with the notch 6. Upon the shelf 12, is placed the reference numeral 2, adjacent the notch Z).

The third shelf 13 has a longer notch or recess 0 therein which has a staggered rela tion to thenotch b, which latter provides in effect a thumb notch to permit of the ready grasping of this overlying part of the shelf, upon which may be placed the numeral The opposite end of this recess 0 extends beyond the corresponding end of the notch shelf 14,-, upon which may be placed the numeral 4. This end of the recess d, as will be understood, also projects beyond the corresponding end of the notch Z) in shelf 12 so as not to obscure the numeral 2 on shelf 12. The opposite end of this recess (Z extends beyond the corresponding end of recess c in shelf 13, leaving the part of the latter on which is the numeral 13, exposed to view. The notches or recesses e, j", etc., in the other shelves 15, 16, etc, successively increase in length and are staggered alternately from right to left as just described. to provide exposed portions having indicating numbers or marks thereon, at the same time leaving suitable thumb spaces under these exposed portions.

As above stated, I preferebly arrange a series of these record containers as drawers in a suitable cabinet such as is shown in Figures 1 and 2 and comprising skeleton side members 25 and which may also have a hinged cover 26. To cover the records 8 each container may have a door 27 hinged to the front edge of the bottom member 1 and normally held closed by the spring clips 28 fixed to the sides 2 of the container, this door being provided with a suitable knob or handle 29.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:-

1. In a phonograph record cabinet, a boxlike record container, a series of vertically spaced shelves slidably supported in the side walls of said container, said shelves having notches formed in their front edges, said notches being of progressively increasing length from the lower to the h1gher shelves to expose portions of the shelves thereunder and being arranged to expose the said portions of alternate shelves at opposite ends of the said notches.

2. In a phonograph record cabinet, a boxlike record container, a series of vertically spaced shelves slidably supported in the side walls of said container, said shelves having sidesof said container having a series of closely spaced slideways, a record holding shelf slidably received in one of said slideways, and having an exposed centrally located portion providing a means for grasp-V ing and withdrawing the shelf, and a series of shelves slidably received in said slideways above said first mentioned shelf,,each of said shelves having an exposed portion, the exposed portions of said last mentioned shelves being arranged in offset staggered relation upon opposite sides of said central exposed portion.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 11th day of March A. D. 1921.

o-swALn Leanna 

